Science in 1900 London: The Linnean Society

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of science in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at the Linnean Society:

On the same side of Burlington House is the Linnean Society, established for the study of Natural History, more particularly of botany.

In the eighteenth century, its meetings were held in Soho Square, in a fine old house with graceful front, now the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Paralysis, once the residence of Sir Joseph Banks, who there collected his unrivalled botanical specimens which he bequeathed to the British Museum.

The Society has a good library, and a herbarium, the nucleus of which was the collection made by Linnaeus, the great Swedish botanist, and purchased for the Society.

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